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Chapter 1 Introduction to the Sun Fire™ V20z and Sun Fire V40z Servers
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1.3 Overview of the Sun Fire V40z Server
The Sun Fire V40z server is an AMD Opteron Processor-based enterprise-class 3U 4P
server. The Sun Fire V40z server provides performance and value to an enterprise
environment, offering significantly better performance than current solutions. The
AMD Opteron processor implements the x86-64 architecture, which delivers 64-bit
capability. In addition, it delivers significant memory capacity and bandwidth, with
twice the memory capacity and up to three times the memory bandwidth of existing
32-bit x86 servers.
The Sun Fire V40z server includes an embedded Service Processor (SP), flash
memory, RAM, a separate Ethernet interface, shadow password support and
server-management software. It comes equipped with superior server-management
tools for greater control and minimum total cost of ownership. You can use the
command line interface or SNMP integration with third-party frameworks to
configure and manage the platform with the SP. The dedicated SP provides complete
operating-system independence and maximum availability of server management.
1.3.1 Applications
The Sun Fire V40z server is ideal for the following applications:
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Web or application hosting
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High-performance compute clusters
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Offsite/remote server installations
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Database workloads
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Corporate data centers